It is interesting that the road where rioting started is named after Motta Gur, the Israeli commander whose voice is immortalized in the ‘67 War saying in Hebrew, “The Temple Mount is in our hands.”
A review of why it didn’t stay that way:
http://www.jcpa.org/jpsr/s99-yc.htm
...After the Temple Mount fell to the Israeli Army on the second day of the 1967 war, Goren, then Army Chief Rabbi, asked Central Region Commander General Uzi Narkiss to place 100 kg. of dynamite in the Dome of the Rock.
Goren repeated the need to blow up the Dome of the Rock at an all-day seminar on the Temple Mount for reservists in the military rabbinate. In the heat of war, where there was much bombing, such an action could have been carried out, Goren claimed, without even a formal military order to counter sniper firing from the Jordanians on the Mount...
http://jcpa.org/al-aksa-is-in-danger-libel-temple-mount/
...[Moshe] Dayan’s first act on the Temple Mount, only a few hours after IDF Chief Rabbi Shlomo Goren blew the shofar and gave the Shehecheyanu blessing beside the Western Wall, was to immediately remove the Israeli flag that the paratroopers had raised on the mount.
Dayan’s second act was to clear out the paratroop company that was supposed to remain permanently stationed in the northern part of the mount. Dayan rejected the insistent pleas of the head of Central Command, Uzi Narkiss...
...Dayan thought, and years later even committed the thought to writing, that since for Muslims the mount is a “Muslim prayer mosque” while for Jews it is no more than “a historical site of commemoration of the past…one should not hinder the Arabs from behaving there as they now do”...
Thanks for the info . I didn’t know who the road was named after. I grew up hearing stories about that week . A family friend was there while it was all happening but he didn’t speak Hebrew so I never hear the names.
Yeah , he made a huge mistake. The Israeli’s are learning though from their past mistakes. They are realizing that any foothold they hand over will just be used against them.